December 12, 2014 [PortNews IAA] - The project “Pechora LNG” includes the construction of a new Port Indiga based in Russia's Nenets Autonomous District (Okrug) and the new port is projected to have an oil products terminal, the region's officials said Thursday at the 4th International Forum "The Arctic: Present and Future" in St. Petersburg.
Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) Governor Igor Koshin added that the future port may have a container terminal but did not go into details about the project. “Now we are working together to prepare an investment passport of the seaport in Indiga. And we are expanding prospects, considering the construction of not only a terminal for shipments of LNG, but also mull over an oil terminal and a container terminal, since it is possible to build a road that would run from Indiga to Orenburg region, through the Perm region and further towards the Urals and Siberia. It length would be about 2,000 km. This is a strategic path, the path of development, and we can build this only in conjunction with other regions of Russia”, the IAA PortNews correspondent quoted the official as saying.
The project of “Pechora LNG” based near Indiga included deployment of a FLNG unit that would be connected to the 300km-long pipeline from the Pechora deposits. The Indiga port is projected as a deep-water port with natural depths of about 17 m. The project investor is a consortium of Alltek and Rosneft.
